Lemle Moses Klaus Synagogue (Mannheim)

Since the early 18th century, the "Klaus" was a place of Jewish learning and religiosity. According to the will of founder and court Jew Lemle Moses Reinganum, it was to serve as a yeshiva and synagogue "as long as the world stands."

The institution in the heart of Mannheim became the center of Jewish Orthodoxy in the 19th century, while the main synagogue in F 2, 13 was available to the religious liberal part of the community.

Until the deportation of Mannheim's Jews in 1940, the Klaus remained the last place of Jewish life in the city. Apart from a memorial plaque, there are no longer any traces of this institution, which was one of the oldest of its kind in Germany. Even the address F 1, 11 has disappeared.